| # Apple | |
| >[Apple Inc. (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.) is an American | |
| > multinational corporation and technology company. | |
| > | |
| > [iMessage (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMessage) is an instant | |
| > messaging service developed by Apple Inc. and launched in 2011. | |
| > `iMessage` functions exclusively on Apple platforms. | |
| ## Installation and Setup | |
| See [setup instructions](/docs/integrations/chat_loaders/imessage). | |
| ## Chat loader | |
| It loads chat sessions from the `iMessage` `chat.db` `SQLite` file. | |
| See a [usage example](/docs/integrations/chat_loaders/imessage). | |
| ```python | |
| from langchain_community.chat_loaders.imessage import IMessageChatLoader | |
| ``` | |